Turkey, the Middle East, the focus of #cyber #attacks
According to Trend Micro's latest report, the number of cyber #threats in the world, which is declining, increased in July to close to 4 billion. #Turkey is subjected to the threat of more attacks in the #Middle #East all alone, and again took first place in the presence of wannacry the number of attacks by malicious websites.
#Trend Micro 's securityintelligence unit #TrendLabs announced the global cyber attack report that it regularly carried out. The number of threats detected has reached the limit of 4 billion, according to the report, which shows that the attacks that started to fall from May onwards all over the world are rising again. The blocked 4 billion for 86 percent of the imminent attack in July, indicating that the form of attacks carried out via e-mail Trend Micro #Greece and Turkey Country Director Hasan Gültekin, the fact that the Turkey of the country where most are determined of attacks via e-mail in the Middle East draw. Gideon "Just the number of attacks detected in Turkey who carried out close to 2 times the entire Middle East. In particular, the number of attacks done with .XLS attached emails is increasing, while .DOCX and.
The number of malicious websites detected is decreasing every month
There has been a noticeable decline in July of the number of malicious websites detected every month during 2018. The number exceeding 125 million in May was 83 million, down 34 percent from July. Hosted mainly in the USA, France and China, these sites are visited by Japan and Taiwan, mainly in the USA. Turkey is still ranked first in the Middle East, while in Europe, Germany, France and Italy, followed by # 4.
WannaCry software source Asia
WannaCry, which affects millions of people and the most damaging software family in 2018, did not stop. While WannaCry retained its first place, in July 22 more new malware families were identified. Compared to the previous month, the number of malware families increased by more than 100 percent. More than 40 percent of these malware is from Asia. attacks of this software is mainly in the Middle East took place against Turkey. Turkey, the United States in the world in the number of attacks suffered by Brazil, India, Vietnam and Mexico comes after # 6.
Smart homes new target of cyber attackers
Trend Micro Country Manager for Greece and Turkey Hasan Gültekin, especially with the spread of smart home recently, cyber attackers said they had changed their target. Indicating that the Trend Micro Smart Home Network (Smart Home Network - SHN) is a security solution that protects against cyber attacks and provides network access management for all connected devices in a home network, Gültekin is used by over 2 million households and major home router vendors worldwide It emphasizes. The attacks, which have seen an increase every month since January, peaked with more than 13 million attacks, especially in June. Nearly 30 percent of the total attacks were aimed at crypto money mining, while more than 37 percent of the attacks were carried out by obtaining the designated passwords of the devices during the production phase.